Bareos Programs

Bareos Daemons

Daemon Command Line Options

Each of the three daemons (Director, File, Storage) accepts a small set of options on the command line. In general, each of the daemons as well as the Console program accepts the following options:

-c,--config <path>

Define the file or directory to use for the configuration. See Configuration Path Layout.

-d,--debug-level nnn

Set the debug level to nnn. Generally anything between 50 and 200 is reasonable. The higher the number, the more output is produced. The output is written to standard output. The debug level can also be set during runtime, see section bconsole: setdebug.

--dt,--debug-timestamps

Print timestamp in debug output.

-f,--foreground

Run the daemon in the foreground. This option is needed to run the daemon under the debugger.

-g,--group <group>

Run the daemon under this group. This must be a group name, not a GID.

-s,--no-signals

Do not trap signals. This option is needed to run the daemon under the debugger.

-t,--test-config

Read the configuration file and print any error messages, then immediately exit. Useful for syntax testing of new configuration files.

-u,--user <user>

Run the daemon as this user. This must be a user name, not a UID.

-v,--verbose

Be more verbose or more complete in printing error and informational messages.

--xc,--export-configuration

Print the current configuration and exit.

--xs,--export-schema

Print configuration schema in JSON format and exit.

-h,--help,-?

Print the version and list of options.

bareos-dir

Bareos Director.

bareos-sd

Bareos Storage Daemon.

bareos-fd

Bareos File Daemon.

Interactive Programs

bconsole

There is an own chapter on bconsole. Please refer to chapter Bareos Console.

bareos-webui

For further information regarding the Bareos Webui, please refer to Bareos Webui.

Volume Utility Commands

This document describes the utility programs written to aid Bareos users and developers in dealing with Volumes external to Bareos and to perform other useful tasks.

Parameter

Specifying the Configuration

Each of the utilities that deal with Volumes require a valid Bareos Storage Daemon configuration (actually, the only part of the configuration file that these programs need is the Device (Sd) resource definitions). This permits the programs to find the configuration parameters for your Archive Device (Sd->Device). Using the -c option a custom Bareos Storage Daemon configuration file or directory can be selected.

Specifying a Device

Each of these programs require a device-name where the Volume can be found. The device-name is either the name of the Bareos Storage Daemon device (Name (Sd->Device)) or its Archive Device (Sd->Device).

Specifying a Device Name For a Tape

In the case of a tape, this is the physical device name such as /dev/nst0 or /dev/rmt/0ubn depending on your system.

Warning

If you have Bareos running and you want to use one of these programs, you will either need to stop the Bareos Storage Daemon or unmount any tape drive you want to use, otherwise the drive may get busy because Bareos is using it. After this, you can use the command mtx or mtx-changer script to load the required volume into the tape drive.

Specifying a Device Name For a File

If you are attempting to read or write an archive file rather than a tape, the device-name can be the full path to the archive location specified at Archive Device (Sd->Device) or this including the filename of the volume. The filename (last part of the specification) will be stripped and used as the Volume name So, the path is equivalent to the Archive Device (Sd->Device) and the filename is equivalent to the volume name.

Specifying Volumes

Often you must specify the Volume name to the programs below. The best method to do so is to specify a bootstrap file on the command line with the -b option. As part of the bootstrap file, you will then specify the Volume name or Volume names if more than one volume is needed. For example, suppose you want to read tapes tapevolume1 and tapevolume2. First construct a bootstrap file named say, list.bsr which contains:

Volume=tapevolume1|tapevolume2

where each Volume is separated by a vertical bar. Then simply use:

bls -b list.bsr /dev/nst0

In the case of Bareos Volumes that are on files, you may simply append volumes as follows:

bls /var/lib/bareos/storage/volume1\|volume2

where the backslash (\) was necessary as a shell escape to permit entering the vertical bar (|).

And finally, if you feel that specifying a Volume name is a bit complicated with a bootstrap file, you can use the -V option (on all programs except bcopy) to specify one or more Volume names separated by the vertical bar (|). For example:

bls /dev/nst0 -V tapevolume1

You may also specify an asterisk (*) to indicate that the program should accept any volume. For example:

bls /dev/nst0 -V*

If your Bareos Storage Daemon has following resource,

bareos-sd.d/device/FileStorage.conf
Device {
  Name = FileStorage
  Archive Device = /var/lib/bareos/storage
  ...
}

following calls of bls should behave identical:

bls using Storage Device Name
bls FileStorage -V Full1

or

bls using the Archive Device of a Storage Device
bls /var/lib/bareos/storage -V Full1

or

bls using the Archive Device of a Storage Device and volume name
bls /var/lib/bareos/storage/Full1

Specifying Maximum Block Size

If you use Bareos with non-default block sizes defined in the pools (Maximum Block Size (Dir->Pool)), it might be necessary to specify the Maximum Block Size (Sd->Device) also in the storage device resource, see Direct access to Volumes with non-default blocksizes.

bls

bls can be used to do an ls type listing of a Bareos tape or file. It is called:

Usage: bls [OPTIONS] device-names...

Positionals:
    device-names   ...
        REQUIRED
        Specify the input device name (either as name of a Bareos Storage 
        Daemon Device resource or identical to the Archive Device in a Bareos 
        Storage Daemon Device resource). 


Options:
    -h,-?,--help
        Print this help message and exit. 

    --version
        Display program version information and exit 

    -b,--parse-bootstrap <file>:FILE
        Specify a bootstrap file. 

    -c,--config <path>:PATH(existing)
        Use <path> as configuration file or directory. 

    -D,--director <director>
        Specify a director name found in the storage. Configuration file for 
        the Key Encryption Key selection. 

    -d,--debug-level <level>
        Set debug level to <level>. 

    --dt,--debug-timestamps
        Print timestamps in debug output. 

    -e,--exclude <file>
        Exclude list. 

    -i,--include-list <file>
        Include list. 

    -j,--list-jobs
        List jobs. 

    -k,--list-blocks
        List blocks. If neither -j or -k specified, list saved files. 

    -L,--dump-labels
        Dump labels. 

    -p,--ignore-errors
        Proceed inspite of IO errors. 

    -v,--verbose
        Default: 0
        Verbose user messages. 

    -V,--volumes <vol1|vol2|...>
        Volume names (separated by |)

Normally if no options are specified, bls will produce the equivalent output to the ls -l command for each volume.

For example, to list the contents of a tape:

bls -V Volume-name /dev/nst0

Or to list the contents of a volume file:

bls FileStorage -V Full-0001

or

bls /var/lib/bareos/storage -V Full-0001

or

bls /var/lib/bareos/storage/Full-0001

For example:

root@host:~# bls FileStorage -V Full-0001 -v
stored/butil.cc:304-0 Using device: "FileStorage" for reading.
13-Sep 14:47 bls JobId 0: Ready to read from volume "Full-0001" on device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage).
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root            1797 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/bareos
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root            3430 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/btraceback
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1668872 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/bareos-fd
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root           26576 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/bscrypto
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1189448 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/bwild
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1188048 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/bregex
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1210744 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/bpluginfo
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root           22568 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/btestls
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root           27464 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/bsmtp
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1516440 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/bareos-sd
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1249256 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/bls
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1228344 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/bextract
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1273720 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/bscan
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1316656 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/btape
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1206640 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/bcopy
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         3165200 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/bareos-dir
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1730080 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/bareos-dbcheck
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         2142248 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/testfind
bls JobId 1: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1344768 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/bconsole
bls JobId 1: drwxr-xr-x   1 root     root             348 2022-09-13 14:36:48  /usr/sbin/
13-Sep 14:47 bls JobId 0: End of Volume at file 0 on device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage), Volume "Full-0001"
13-Sep 14:47 bls JobId 0: End of all volumes.
23 files and directories found.
13-Sep 14:47 bls JobId 0: Releasing device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage).

Show Detailed File Information

To retrieve information, about how a file is stored on the volume, you can use bls in verbose mode:

root@host:~# bls FileStorage -V Full-0001 -v
bls: stored/butil.cc:304-0 Using device: "FileStorage" for reading.
13-Sep 14:43 bls JobId 0: Ready to read from volume "Full-0001" on device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage).
Volume Label Record: VolSessionId=1 VolSessionTime=1663079882 JobId=0 DataLen=184
Begin Job Session Record: VolSessionId=1 VolSessionTime=1663079882 JobId=1 DataLen=164
FileIndex=1     Stream=1  UATTR                     DataLen=86    | -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root            1797 2022-09-13 14:36:48
                                                                  | /usr/sbin/bareos
FileIndex=1     Stream=2  DATA                      DataLen=1797  |
FileIndex=1     Stream=3  MD5                       DataLen=16    | rsFZaeL8A6GFsWv2epxcWw (base64)
FileIndex=2     Stream=1  UATTR                     DataLen=90    | -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root            3430 2022-09-13 14:36:48
                                                                  | /usr/sbin/btraceback
FileIndex=2     Stream=2  DATA                      DataLen=3430  |
FileIndex=2     Stream=3  MD5                       DataLen=16    | GatM//3Gz1Z3DbUyHnBGdg (base64)
...
End Job Session Record: VolSessionId=1 VolSessionTime=1663079882 JobId=1 DataLen=200
13-Sep 14:43 bls JobId 0: End of Volume at file 0 on device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage), Volume "Full-0001"
13-Sep 14:43 bls JobId 0: End of all volumes.
End of Physical Medium Record: VolSessionId=0 VolSessionTime=0 JobId=0 DataLen=0
23 files and directories found.
13-Sep 14:43 bls JobId 0: Releasing device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage).

For details about the Volume format, see Storage Media Output Format.

Show Label Information

Using the -L the label information of a Volume is shown:

bls: show volume label
root@host:~# bls -L /var/lib/bareos/storage/Full-0001
bls: stored/butil.cc:304-0 Using device: "/var/lib/bareos/storage" for reading.
13-Sep 14:40 bls JobId 0: Ready to read from volume "Full-0001" on device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage).

Volume Label:
Id                : Bareos 2.0 immortal
VerNo             : 20
VolName           : Full-0001
PrevVolName       :
VolFile           : 0
LabelType         : VOL_LABEL
LabelSize         : 184
PoolName          : Full
MediaType         : File
PoolType          : Backup
HostName          : 76c757a344d8
Date label written: 13-Sep-2022 14:38
13-Sep 14:40 bls JobId 0: Releasing device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage).

Listing Jobs

If you are listing a Volume to determine what Jobs to restore, normally the -j option provides you with most of what you will need as long as you don’t have multiple clients. For example:

bls: list jobs
root@host:~# bls FileStorage -V Full-0001 -j
bls: stored/butil.cc:304-0 Using device: "FileStorage" for reading.
13-Sep 14:56 bls JobId 0: Ready to read from volume "Full-0001" on device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage).
Volume Record: File:blk=0:219 SessId=1 SessTime=1663079882 JobId=0 DataLen=184
Begin Job Session Record: File:blk=0:64731 SessId=1 SessTime=1663079882 JobId=1
   Job=backup-bareos-fd.2022-09-13_14.38.22_03 Date=13-Sep-2022 14:38:54 Level=F Type=B
End Job Session Record: File:blk=0:21531986 SessId=1 SessTime=1663079882 JobId=1
   Job=backup-bareos-fd.2022-09-13_14.38.22_03 Date=13-Sep-2022 14:38:55 Level=F Type=B Files=23 Bytes=21,514,771 Errors=0 Status=T
Begin Job Session Record: File:blk=0:21596498 SessId=2 SessTime=1663079882 JobId=2
   Job=BackupCatalog.2022-09-13_14.52.39_05 Date=13-Sep-2022 14:52:57 Level=F Type=B
End Job Session Record: File:blk=0:21632274 SessId=2 SessTime=1663079882 JobId=2
   Job=BackupCatalog.2022-09-13_14.52.39_05 Date=13-Sep-2022 14:52:57 Level=F Type=B Files=83 Bytes=97,574 Errors=0 Status=T
Begin Job Session Record: File:blk=0:21696786 SessId=4 SessTime=1663079882 JobId=4
   Job=backup-bareos-fd.2022-09-13_14.56.13_08 Date=13-Sep-2022 14:56:37 Level=F Type=B
End Job Session Record: File:blk=0:73795419 SessId=4 SessTime=1663079882 JobId=4
   Job=backup-bareos-fd.2022-09-13_14.56.13_08 Date=13-Sep-2022 14:56:38 Level=F Type=B Files=163 Bytes=52,119,713 Errors=0 Status=T
13-Sep 14:56 bls JobId 0: End of Volume at file 0 on device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage), Volume "Full-0001"
13-Sep 14:56 bls JobId 0: End of all volumes.
13-Sep 14:56 bls JobId 0: Releasing device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage).

Adding the -v option will display virtually all information that is available for each record.

Listing Blocks

Normally, except for debugging purposes, you will not need to list Bareos blocks (the “primitive” unit of Bareos data on the Volume). However, you can do so with:

root@host:~# bls FileStorage -k -V Incremental-0002
bls: stored/butil.cc:304-0 Using device: "FileStorage" for reading.
13-Sep 15:00 bls JobId 0: Ready to read from volume "Incremental-0002" on device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage).
Block: 0 size=234
Block: 1 size=64512
Block: 2 size=64512
...
Block: 474 size=64512
Block: 475 size=53141
13-Sep 15:00 bls JobId 0: End of file 0 on device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage), Volume "Incremental-0002"
13-Sep 15:00 bls JobId 0: Got EOM at file 0 on device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage), Volume "Incremental-0002"
13-Sep 15:00 bls JobId 0: Releasing device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage).
End of File on device

By adding the -v option, you can get more information, which can be useful in knowing what sessions were written to the volume:

root@host:~# bls FileStorage -k -v -V Incremental-0002
bls: stored/butil.cc:304-0 Using device: "FileStorage" for reading.
13-Sep 15:00 bls JobId 0: Ready to read from volume "Incremental-0002" on device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage).
File:blk=0:233 blk_num=0 blen=234 First rec FI=VOL_LABEL SessId=3 SessTim=1663079882 Strm=0 rlen=198
File:blk=0:64745 blk_num=1 blen=64512 First rec FI=SOS_LABEL SessId=3 SessTim=1663079882 Strm=3 rlen=171
File:blk=0:129257 blk_num=2 blen=64512 First rec FI=7 SessId=3 SessTim=1663079882 Strm=DATA rlen=30338
File:blk=0:193769 blk_num=3 blen=64512 First rec FI=15 SessId=3 SessTim=1663079882 Strm=DATA rlen=3720
File:blk=0:258281 blk_num=4 blen=64512 First rec FI=16 SessId=3 SessTim=1663079882 Strm=DATA rlen=4920
File:blk=0:322793 blk_num=5 blen=64512 First rec FI=17 SessId=3 SessTim=1663079882 Strm=DATA rlen=61718
...
File:blk=0:30514409 blk_num=473 blen=64512 First rec FI=138 SessId=3 SessTim=1663079882 Strm=DATA rlen=33238
File:blk=0:30578921 blk_num=474 blen=64512 First rec FI=139 SessId=3 SessTim=1663079882 Strm=DATA rlen=34441
File:blk=0:30632062 blk_num=475 blen=53141 First rec FI=139 SessId=3 SessTim=1663079882 Strm=DATA rlen=21545
13-Sep 15:00 bls JobId 0: End of file 0 on device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage), Volume "Incremental-0002"
13-Sep 15:00 bls JobId 0: Got EOM at file 0 on device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage), Volume "Incremental-0002"
13-Sep 15:00 bls JobId 0: Releasing device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage).

Armed with the SessionId and the SessionTime, you can extract just about anything.

If you want to know even more, add a second -v to the command line to get a dump of every record in every block.

root@host:~# bls -k -vv /var/lib/bareos/storage/Incremental-0002
bls: stored/butil.cc:304-0 Using device: "/var/lib/bareos/storage" for reading.
13-Sep 15:04 bls JobId 0: Ready to read from volume "Incremental-0002" on device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage).
bls: stored/block.cc:99-0 Dump block  24ac278: size=234 BlkNum=0
               Hdrcksum=2fce7bf9 cksum=2fce7bf9
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=VOL_LABEL Strm=0 len=198 p=24ae670
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=1659628785 Strm=64512 len=1 p=24ae742
bls: stored/block.cc:99-0 Dump block  24ac278: size=64512 BlkNum=1
               Hdrcksum=62ebecf1 cksum=62ebecf1
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=SOS_LABEL Strm=3 len=171 p=24ae670
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=1 Strm=UATTR len=96 p=24ae727
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=2 Strm=UATTR len=94 p=24ae793
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=3 Strm=UATTR len=88 p=24ae7fd
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=3 Strm=DATA len=1288 p=24ae861
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=3 Strm=MD5 len=16 p=24aed75
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=4 Strm=UATTR len=87 p=24aed91
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=4 Strm=DATA len=1671 p=24aedf4
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=4 Strm=MD5 len=16 p=24af487
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=5 Strm=UATTR len=92 p=24af4a3
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=5 Strm=DATA len=3075 p=24af50b
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=5 Strm=MD5 len=16 p=24b011a
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=6 Strm=UATTR len=88 p=24b0136
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=6 Strm=DATA len=22776 p=24b019a
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=6 Strm=MD5 len=16 p=24b5a9e
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=7 Strm=UATTR len=88 p=24b5aba
bls: stored/block.cc:112-0    Rec: VId=3 VT=1663079882 FI=7 Strm=DATA len=64944 p=24b5b1e
bls: stored/block.cc:99-0 Dump block  24ac278: size=64512 BlkNum=2
               Hdrcksum=ec9afd49 cksum=ec9afd49
...

bextract

If you find yourself using bextract, you probably have done something wrong. For example, if you are trying to recover a file but are having problems, please see the Restoring When Things Go Wrong chapter.

Normally, you will restore files by running a Restore Job from the Console program. However, bextract can be used to extract a single file or a list of files from a Bareos tape or file. In fact, bextract can be a useful tool to restore files to an empty system assuming you are able to boot, you have statically linked bextract and you have an appropriate bootstrap file.

Please note that some of the current limitations of bextract are:

  1. It cannot restore access control lists (ACL) that have been backed up along with the file data.

  2. It cannot restore encrypted files.

  3. The command line length is relatively limited, which means that you cannot enter a huge number of volumes. If you need to enter more volumes than the command line supports, please use a bootstrap file (see below).

  4. Extracting files from a Windows backup on a Linux system will only extract the plain files, not the additional Windows file information. If you have to extract files from a Windows backup, you should use the Windows version of bextract.

Usage: bextract [OPTIONS] bareos-archive-device-name target-directory

Positionals:
    bareos-archive-device-name  
        REQUIRED
        Specify the input device name (either as name of a Bareos Storage 
        Daemon Device resource or identical to the Archive Device in a Bareos 
        Storage Daemon Device resource). 

    target-directory  
        REQUIRED
        Specify directory where to store files. 


Options:
    -h,-?,--help
        Print this help message and exit. 

    --version
        Display program version information and exit 

    -b,--parse-bootstrap <file>:FILE
        Specify a bootstrap file. 

    -c,--config <path>:PATH(existing)
        Use <path> as configuration file or directory. 

    -D,--director <director>
        Specify a director name specified in the storage. Configuration file 
        for the Key Encryption Key selection. 

    -d,--debug-level <level>
        Set debug level to <level>. 

    --dt,--debug-timestamps
        Print timestamps in debug output. 

    -e,--exclude <file>
        Exclude list. 

    -i,--include-list <file>
        Include list. 

    -p,--ignore-errors
        Proceed inspite of IO errors. 

    -v,--verbose
        Default: 0
        Verbose user messages. 

    -V,--volumes <vol1|vol2|...>
        Volume names (separated by |).

where bareos-archive-device-name is the Archive Device (raw device name or full filename) of the device to be read, and target-directory is a path prefix to prepend to all the files restored.

Warning

On Windows systems, if you specify a prefix of say d:/tmp, any file that would have been restored to C:/My Documents will be restored to D:/tmp/My Documents. That is, the original drive specification will be stripped. If no prefix is specified, the file will be restored to the original drive.

Extracting with Include or Exclude Lists

Using the -e option, you can specify a file containing a list of files to be excluded. Wildcards can be used in the exclusion list. This option will normally be used in conjunction with the -i option (see below). Both the -e and the -i options may be specified at the same time as the -b option. The bootstrap filters will be applied first, then the include list, then the exclude list.

Likewise, and probably more importantly, with the -i option, you can specify a file that contains a list (one file per line) of files and directories to include to be restored. The list must contain the full filename with the path. If you specify a path name only, all files and subdirectories of that path will be restored. If you specify a line containing only the filename (e.g. my-file.txt) it probably will not be extracted because you have not specified the full path.

For example, if the file include-list contains:

/etc/bareos
/usr/sbin

Then the command:

bextract -i include-list -V Volume /dev/nst0 /tmp

will restore from the Bareos archive /dev/nst0 all files and directories in the backup from /etc/bareos and from /usr/sbin. The restored files will be placed in a file of the original name under the directory /tmp (i.e. /tmp/etc/bareos/… and /tmp/usr/sbin/…).

Extracting With a Bootstrap File

The -b option is used to specify a bootstrap file containing the information needed to restore precisely the files you want. Specifying a bootstrap file is optional but recommended because it gives you the most control over which files will be restored. For more details on the bootstrap file, please see Restoring Files with the Bootstrap File chapter of this document. Note, you may also use a bootstrap file produced by the restore command. For example:

bextract -b bootstrap-file /dev/nst0 /tmp

The bootstrap file allows detailed specification of what files you want restored (extracted). You may specify a bootstrap file and include and/or exclude files at the same time. The bootstrap conditions will first be applied, and then each file record seen will be compared to the include and exclude lists.

Extracting From Multiple Volumes

If you wish to extract files that span several Volumes, you can specify the Volume names in the bootstrap file or you may specify the Volume names on the command line by separating them with a vertical bar. See the section above under the bls program entitled Listing Multiple Volumes for more information. The same techniques apply equally well to the bextract program or read the Bootstrap chapter of this document.

Extracting Under Windows

Warning

If you use bextract under Windows, the order of the parameters is essential.

To use bextract, the Bareos Storage Daemon must be installed. As bextract works on tapes or disk volumes, these must be configured in the Storage Daemon configuration file, normally found at C:\ProgrammData\Bareos\. However, it is not required to start the Bareos Storage Daemon. Normally, if the Storage Daemon would be able to run, bextract would not be required.

After installing, bextract can be called via command line:

Call of bextract
C:\Program Files\Bareos> .\bextract.exe -c "C:\ProgrammData\Bareos\" -V <Volume> <YourStorage> <YourDestination>

If you want to use exclude or include files you need to write them like you do on Linux. That means each path begins with a “/” and not with “yourdrive:/”. You need to specify the parameter -e exclude.list as first parameter. For example:

Example exclude.list
/Program Files/Bareos/bareos-dir.exe
/ProgramData/
Call bextract with exclude list
C:\Program Files\Bareos> .\bextract.exe -e exclude.list -c "C:\ProgrammData\Bareos\" -V <Volume> <YourStorage> <YourDestination>

bscan

If you find yourself using this program, you have probably done something wrong. For example, the best way to recover a lost or damaged Bareos database is to reload the database by using the bootstrap file that was written when you saved it (default Bareos-dir.conf file).

The bscan program can be used to re-create a database (catalog) records from the backup information written to one or more Volumes. This is normally needed only if one or more Volumes have been pruned or purged from your catalog so that the records on the Volume are no longer in the catalog, or for Volumes that you have archived. Note, if you scan in Volumes that were previously purged, you will be able to do restores from those Volumes. However, unless you modify the Job and File retention times for the Jobs that were added by scanning, the next time you run any backup Job with the same name, the records will be pruned again. Since it takes a long time to scan Volumes this can be very frustrating.

With some care, bscan can also be used to synchronize your existing catalog with a Volume. Although we have never seen a case of bscan damaging a catalog, since bscan modifies your catalog, we recommend that you do a simple ASCII backup of your database before running bscan just to be sure.

bscan can also be useful in a disaster recovery situation, after the loss of a hard disk, if you do not have a valid bootstrap file for reloading your system, or if a Volume has been recycled but not overwritten, you can use bscan to re-create your database, which can then be used to restore your system or a file to its previous state.

It is called:

Usage: bscan [OPTIONS] device_name

Positionals:
    device_name  
        REQUIRED
        Specify the input device name (either as name of a Bareos Storage 
        Daemon Device resource or identical to the Archive Device in a Bareos 
        Storage Daemon Device resource). 


Options:
    -h,-?,--help
        Print this help message and exit. 

    --version
        Display program version information and exit 

    -b,--parse-bootstrap <bootstrap>:FILE
        Specify a bootstrap file 

    -c,--config <path>:PATH(existing)
        Use <path> as configuration file or directory 

    -D,--director <director>
        Specify a director name specified in the storage. Configuration file 
        for the Key Encryption Key selection. 

    -d,--debug-level <level>
        Set debug level to <level>. 

    --dt,--debug-timestamps
        Print timestamps in debug output. 

    -n,--dbname <name>
        Default: bareos
        Specify database name. 

    -o,--dbhost <host>
        Specify database host. 

    -P,--dbpassword <password>
        Specify database password. 

    -t,--dbport <port>
        Specify database port. 

    -u,--dbuser <user>
        Default: bareos
        Specify database user name. 

    -m,--update-volume-info
        Update media info in database. 

    -p,--proceed-io
        Proceed inspite of IO errors 

    -r,--list-records
        List records. 

    -S,--show-progress
        Show scan progress periodically. 

    -s,--update-db
        Synchronize or store in database. 

    -V,--volumes <vol1|vol2|...>
        Specify volume names (separated by |). 

    -v,--verbose
        Default: 0
        Verbose user messages. 

    -w,--working-directory <directory>
        Specify working directory.

If you have provided security on your database, you may need to supply either the database name (-b option), the user name (-u option), and/or the password (-p) options.

NOTE: before bscan can work, it needs at least a bare bones valid database. If your database exists but some records are missing because they were pruned, then you are all set. If your database was lost or destroyed, then you must first ensure that you have PostgreSQL running, then you must create the Bareos database (normally named bareos), and you must create the Bareos tables. This is explained in Prepare Bareos database chapter of the manual. Finally, before scanning into an empty database, you must start and stop the Director with the appropriate Bareos-dir.conf file so that it can create the Client and Storage records which are not stored on the Volumes. Without these records, scanning is unable to connect the Job records to the proper client.

Forgetting for the moment the extra complications of a full rebuild of your catalog, let’s suppose that you did a backup to Volumes “Vol001” and “Vol002”, then sometime later all records of one or both those Volumes were pruned or purged from the database. By using bscan you can recreate the catalog entries for those Volumes and then use the restore command in the Console to restore whatever you want. A command something like:

bscan -v -V Vol001|Vol002 /dev/nst0

will give you an idea of what is going to happen without changing your catalog. Of course, you may need to change the path to the Storage daemon’s conf file, the Volume name, and your tape (or disk) device name. This command must read the entire tape, so if it has a lot of data, it may take a long time, and thus you might want to immediately use the command listed below. Note, if you are writing to a disk file, replace the device name with the path to the directory that contains the Volumes. This must correspond to the Archive Device in the conf file.

Then to actually write or store the records in the catalog, add the -s option as follows:

bscan -s -m -v -V Vol001|Vol002 /dev/nst0

When writing to the database, if bscan finds existing records, it will generally either update them if something is wrong or leave them alone. Thus if the Volumes you are scanning are all or partially in the catalog already, no harm will be done to that existing data. Any missing data will simply be added.

If you have multiple tapes, you should scan them with:

bscan -s -m -v -V Vol001|Vol002|Vol003 /dev/nst0

Since there is a limit on the command line length (511 bytes) accepted by bscan, if you have too many Volumes, you will need to manually create a bootstrap file. See the Bootstrap chapter of this manual for more details, in particular the section entitled Bootstrap for bscan. Basically, the .bsr file for the above example might look like:

Volume=Vol001
Volume=Vol002
Volume=Vol003

Note: bscan does not support supplying Volume names on the command line and at the same time in a bootstrap file. Please use only one or the other.

You should, always try to specify the tapes in the order they are written. If you do not, any Jobs that span a volume may not be fully or properly restored. However, bscan can handle scanning tapes that are not sequential. Any incomplete records at the end of the tape will simply be ignored in that case. If you are simply repairing an existing catalog, this may be OK, but if you are creating a new catalog from scratch, it will leave your database in an incorrect state. If you do not specify all necessary Volumes on a single bscan command, bscan will not be able to correctly restore the records that span two volumes. In other words, it is much better to specify two or three volumes on a single bscan command (or in a .bsr file) rather than run bscan two or three times, each with a single volume.

Note, the restoration process using bscan is not identical to the original creation of the catalog data. This is because certain data such as Client records and other non-essential data such as volume reads, volume mounts, etc is not stored on the Volume, and thus is not restored by bscan. The results of bscanning are, however, perfectly valid, and will permit restoration of any or all the files in the catalog using the normal Bareos console commands. If you are starting with an empty catalog and expecting bscan to reconstruct it, you may be a bit disappointed, but at a minimum, you must ensure that your Bareos-dir.conf file is the same as what it previously was – that is, it must contain all the appropriate Client resources so that they will be recreated in your new database before running bscan. Normally when the Director starts, it will recreate any missing Client records in the catalog. Another problem you will have is that even if the Volumes (Media records) are recreated in the database, they will not have their autochanger status and slots properly set. As a result, you will need to repair that by using the update slots command. There may be other considerations as well. Rather than bscanning, you should always attempt to recover you previous catalog backup.

Using bscan to Compare a Volume to an existing Catalog

If you wish to compare the contents of a Volume to an existing catalog without changing the catalog, you can safely do so if and only if you do not specify either the -m or the -s options. However, the comparison routines are not as good or as thorough as they should be, so we don’t particularly recommend this mode other than for testing.

Using bscan to Recreate a Catalog from a Volume

This is the mode for which bscan is most useful. You can either bscan into a freshly created catalog, or directly into your existing catalog (after having made an ASCII copy as described above). Normally, you should start with a freshly created catalog that contains no data.

Starting with a single Volume named TestVolume1, you run a command such as:

bscan -V TestVolume1 -v -s -m /dev/nst0

If there is more than one volume, simply append it to the first one separating it with a vertical bar. You may need to precede the vertical bar with a forward slash escape the shell – e.g. TestVolume1|TestVolume2. The -v option was added for verbose output (this can be omitted if desired). The -s option that tells bscan to store information in the database. The physical device name /dev/nst0 is specified after all the options.

For example, after having done a full backup of a directory, then two incrementals, I reinitialized the catalog database as described above, and using the bootstrap.bsr file noted above, I entered the following command:

bscan -b bootstrap.bsr -v -s /dev/nst0

which produced the following output:

bscan: bscan.c:182 Using Database: Bareos, User: bacula
bscan: bscan.c:673 Created Pool record for Pool: Default
bscan: bscan.c:271 Pool type "Backup" is OK.
bscan: bscan.c:632 Created Media record for Volume: TestVolume1
bscan: bscan.c:298 Media type "DDS-4" is OK.
bscan: bscan.c:307 VOL_LABEL: OK for Volume: TestVolume1
bscan: bscan.c:693 Created Client record for Client: Rufus
bscan: bscan.c:769 Created new JobId=1 record for original JobId=2
bscan: bscan.c:717 Created FileSet record "Users Files"
bscan: bscan.c:819 Updated Job termination record for new JobId=1
bscan: bscan.c:905 Created JobMedia record JobId 1, MediaId 1
bscan: Got EOF on device /dev/nst0
bscan: bscan.c:693 Created Client record for Client: Rufus
bscan: bscan.c:769 Created new JobId=2 record for original JobId=3
bscan: bscan.c:708 Fileset "Users Files" already exists.
bscan: bscan.c:819 Updated Job termination record for new JobId=2
bscan: bscan.c:905 Created JobMedia record JobId 2, MediaId 1
bscan: Got EOF on device /dev/nst0
bscan: bscan.c:693 Created Client record for Client: Rufus
bscan: bscan.c:769 Created new JobId=3 record for original JobId=4
bscan: bscan.c:708 Fileset "Users Files" already exists.
bscan: bscan.c:819 Updated Job termination record for new JobId=3
bscan: bscan.c:905 Created JobMedia record JobId 3, MediaId 1
bscan: Got EOF on device /dev/nst0
bscan: bscan.c:652 Updated Media record at end of Volume: TestVolume1
bscan: bscan.c:428 End of Volume. VolFiles=3 VolBlocks=57 VolBytes=10,027,437

The key points to note are that bscan prints a line when each major record is created. Due to the volume of output, it does not print a line for each file record unless you supply the -v option twice or more on the command line.

In the case of a Job record, the new JobId will not normally be the same as the original Jobid. For example, for the first JobId above, the new JobId is 1, but the original JobId is 2. This is nothing to be concerned about as it is the normal nature of databases. bscan will keep everything straight.

Although bscan claims that it created a Client record for Client: Rufus three times, it was actually only created the first time. This is normal.

You will also notice that it read an end of file after each Job (Got EOF on device …). Finally the last line gives the total statistics for the bscan.

If you had added a second -v option to the command line, Bareos would have been even more verbose, dumping virtually all the details of each Job record it encountered.

Now if you start Bareos and enter a list jobs command to the console program, you will get:

list jobs
+-------+----------+------------------+------+-----+----------+----------+---------+
| JobId | Name     | StartTime        | Type | Lvl | JobFiles | JobBytes | JobStat |
+-------+----------+------------------+------+-----+----------+----------+---------+
| 1     | usersave | 2002-10-07 14:59 | B    | F   | 84       | 4180207  | T       |
| 2     | usersave | 2002-10-07 15:00 | B    | I   | 15       | 2170314  | T       |
| 3     | usersave | 2002-10-07 15:01 | B    | I   | 33       | 3662184  | T       |
+-------+----------+------------------+------+-----+----------+----------+---------+

which corresponds virtually identically with what the database contained before it was re-initialized and restored with bscan. All the Jobs and Files found on the tape are restored including most of the Media record. The Volume (Media) records restored will be marked as Full so that they cannot be rewritten without operator intervention.

It should be noted that bscan cannot restore a database to the exact condition it was in previously because a lot of the less important information contained in the database is not saved to the tape. Nevertheless, the reconstruction is sufficiently complete, that you can run restore against it and get valid results.

An interesting aspect of restoring a catalog backup using bscan is that the backup was made while Bareos was running and writing to a tape. At the point the backup of the catalog is made, the tape Bareos is writing to will have say 10 files on it, but after the catalog backup is made, there will be 11 files on the tape Bareos is writing. This there is a difference between what is contained in the backed up catalog and what is actually on the tape. If after restoring a catalog, you attempt to write on the same tape that was used to backup the catalog, Bareos will detect the difference in the number of files registered in the catalog compared to what is on the tape, and will mark the tape in error.

There are two solutions to this problem. The first is possibly the simplest and is to mark the volume as Used before doing any backups. The second is to manually correct the number of files listed in the Media record of the catalog. This procedure is documented elsewhere in the manual and involves using the update volume command in bconsole.

Using bscan to Correct the Volume File Count

If the Storage daemon crashes during a backup Job, the catalog will not be properly updated for the Volume being used at the time of the crash. This means that the Storage daemon will have written say 20 files on the tape, but the catalog record for the Volume indicates only 19 files.

Bareos refuses to write on a tape that contains a different number of files from what is in the catalog. To correct this situation, you may run a bscan with the -m option (but without the -s option) to update only the final Media record for the Volumes read.

After bscan

If you use bscan to enter the contents of the Volume into an existing catalog, you should be aware that the records you entered may be immediately pruned during the next job, particularly if the Volume is very old or had been previously purged. To avoid this, after running bscan, you can manually set the volume status (VolStatus) to Read-Only by using the update command in the catalog. This will allow you to restore from the volume without having it immediately purged. When you have restored and backed up the data, you can reset the VolStatus to Used and the Volume will be purged from the catalog.

Limitation - bscan: importing jobs with bscan may break the correct job chain order

The Start Of Session (SOS) record is a special record placed by the Storage daemon on the storage medium as the first record of an append session job with a File daemon. This record is needed for finding the beginning of a particular session (Job), since no records with the same VolSessionId and VolSessionTime will precede this record. This record is not normally visible outside of the Storage daemon. The Begin Session Label is similar to the Volume Label except that it contains additional information pertaining to the Session.

Having just a single timestamp generated by the SD in the SOS record is a limitation because there’s currently no way for bscan to be aware of a jobs SchedTime, StartTime, EndTime, RealEndTime and JobTDate. Those values are required to keep the historical and correct order of a CopyJob, a MigrationJob or a VirtualFull.

Due to this fact timestamps of a CopyJob, a MigrationJob or a VirtualFull will always differ from the timestamp in the original catalog after using bscan.

Please be aware that this can lead to serious problems when using the Always Incremental backup scheme for example.

bcopy

The bcopy program can be used to copy one Bareos archive file to another. For example, you may copy a tape to a file, a file to a tape, a file to a file, or a tape to a tape. For tape to tape, you will need two tape drives. In the process of making the copy, no record of the information written to the new Volume is stored in the catalog. This means that the new Volume, though it contains valid backup data, cannot be accessed directly from existing catalog entries. If you wish to be able to use the Volume with the Console restore command, for example, you must first command:bscan the new Volume into the catalog.

Usage: bcopy [OPTIONS] input-archive output-archive

Positionals:
    input-archive  
        REQUIRED
        Specify the input device name (either as name of a Bareos Storage 
        Daemon Device resource or identical to the Archive Device in a Bareos 
        Storage Daemon Device resource). 

    output-archive  
        REQUIRED
        Specify the output device name (either as name of a Bareos Storage 
        Daemon Device resource or identical to the Archive Device in a Bareos 
        Storage Daemon Device resource). 


Options:
    -h,-?,--help
        Print this help message and exit. 

    --version
        Display program version information and exit 

    -b,--parse-bootstrap <bootstrap>:FILE
        Specify a bootstrap file. 

    -c,--config <path>:PATH(existing)
        Use <path> as configuration file or directory. 

    -D,--director <director>
        Specify a director name specified in the storage. Configuration file 
        for the Key Encryption Key selection. 

    -d,--debug-level <level>
        Set debug level to <level>. 

    --dt,--debug-timestamps
        Print timestamps in debug output. 

    -i,--input-volumes <vol1|vol2|...>
        specify input Volume names (separated by |) 

    -o,--output-volumes <vol1|vol2|...>
        specify output Volume names (separated by |) 

    -p,--ignore-errors
        Proceed inspite of errors. 

    -v,--verbose
        Default: 0
        Verbose user messages. 

    -w,--working-directory <directory>
        Default: /tmp
        specify working directory.

By using a bootstrap file, you can copy parts of a Bareos archive file to another archive.

btape

This program permits a number of elementary tape operations via a tty command interface. It works only with tapes and not with other kinds of Bareos storage media (DVD, File, …). The test command, described below, can be very useful for testing older tape drive compatibility problems. Aside from initial testing of tape drive compatibility with Bareos, command:btape will be mostly used by developers writing new tape drivers.

command:btape can be dangerous to use with existing Bareos tapes because it will relabel a tape or write on the tape if so requested regardless that the tape may contain valuable data, so please be careful and use it only on blank tapes.

To work properly, btape needs to read the Storage daemon’s configuration.

The physical device name must be specified on the command line, and this same device name must be present in the Storage daemon’s configuration read by btape.

Usage: btape [OPTIONS] bareos-archive-device-name

Positionals:
    bareos-archive-device-name  
        REQUIRED
        Specify the input device name (either as name of a Bareos Storage 
        Daemon Device resource or identical to the Archive Device in a Bareos 
        Storage Daemon Device resource). 


Options:
    -h,-?,--help
        Print this help message and exit. 

    --version
        Display program version information and exit 

    -b,--parse-bootstrap <file>:FILE
        Specify a bootstrap file. 

    -c,--config <path>:PATH(existing)
        Specify a configuration file or directory. 

    -D,--director <director>
        Specify a director name specified in the storage. Configuration file 
        for the Key Encryption Key selection. 

    -d,--debug-level <level>
        Set debug level to <level>. 

    --dt,--debug-timestamps
        Print timestamps in debug output. 

    -p,--proceed-io
        Proceed inspite of IO errors 

    -s,--no-signals
        Turn off signals. 

    -v,--verbose
        Default: 0
        Verbose user messages. 

[Option Group: Interactive commands]
  Interactive commands:
    Command    Description
    =======    ===========
    autochanger test autochanger
    bsf        backspace file
    bsr        backspace record
    cap        list device capabilities
    clear      clear tape errors
    eod        go to end of Bareos data for append
    eom        go to the physical end of medium
    fill       fill tape, write onto second volume
    unfill     read filled tape
    fsf        forward space a file
    fsr        forward space a record
    help       print this command
    label      write a Bareos label to the tape
    load       load a tape
    quit       quit btape
    rawfill    use write() to fill tape
    readlabel  read and print the Bareos tape label
    rectest    test record handling functions
    rewind     rewind the tape
    scan       read() tape block by block to EOT and report
    scanblocks Bareos read block by block to EOT and report
    speed      [file_size=n(GB)|nb_file=3|skip_zero|skip_random|skip_raw|skip_block] report drive speed
    status     print tape status
    test       General test Bareos tape functions
    weof       write an EOF on the tape
    wr         write a single Bareos block
    rr         read a single record
    rb         read a single Bareos block
    qfill      quick fill command

Using btape to Verify your Tape Drive

An important reason for this program is to ensure that a Storage daemon configuration is defined so that Bareos will correctly read and write tapes.

It is highly recommended that you run the test command before running your first Bareos job to ensure that the parameters you have defined for your storage device (tape drive) will permit Bareos to function properly. You only need to mount a blank tape, enter the command, and the output should be reasonably self explanatory. Please see the Tape Testing Chapter of this manual for the details.

btape Commands

The full list of commands are:

btape commands
  Command     Description
  =======     ===========
  autochanger test autochanger
  bsf         backspace file
  bsr         backspace record
  cap         list device capabilities
  clear       clear tape errors
  eod         go to end of Bareos data for append
  eom         go to the physical end of medium
  fill        fill tape, write onto second volume
  unfill      read filled tape
  fsf         forward space a file
  fsr         forward space a record
  help        print this command
  label       write a Bareos label to the tape
  load        load a tape
  quit        quit btape
  rawfill     use write() to fill tape
  readlabel   read and print the Bareos tape label
  rectest     test record handling functions
  rewind      rewind the tape
  scan        read() tape block by block to EOT and report
  scanblocks  Bareos read block by block to EOT and report
  speed       report drive speed
  status      print tape status
  test        General test Bareos tape functions
  weof        write an EOF on the tape
  wr          write a single Bareos block
  rr          read a single record
  qfill       quick fill command

The most useful commands are:

  • test – test writing records and EOF marks and reading them back.

  • fill – completely fill a volume with records, then write a few records on a second volume, and finally, both volumes will be read back. This command writes blocks containing random data, so your drive will not be able to compress the data, and thus it is a good test of the real physical capacity of your tapes.

  • readlabel – read and dump the label on a Bareos tape.

  • cap – list the device capabilities and status.

The readlabel command can be used to display the details of a Bareos tape label. This can be useful if the physical tape label was lost or damaged.

In the event that you want to relabel a Bareos volume, you can simply use the label command which will write over any existing label. However, please note for labeling tapes, we recommend that you use the label command in the Console program since it will never overwrite a valid Bareos tape.

Testing your Tape Drive Speed

To determine the best configuration of your tape drive, you can run the speed command available in the btape program.

This command can have the following arguments:

  • file_size specify the file size for this test. This counter is in GB.

  • nb_file specify the number of file to be written. The amount of data should be greater than your memory (file_size * nb_file).

  • skip_raw flag permits to skip tests with raw access.

  • skip_block flag permits to skip tests with Bareos block access.

  • skip_zero flag permits to skip tests with constant data.

  • skip_random flag permits to skip tests with random data.

btape speed
su bareos -g bareos -G tape -s /bin/sh -c '/usr/sbin/btape Drive-0'

*speed file_size=3 skip_raw
btape.c:1078 Test with zero data and Bareos block structure.
btape.c:956 Begin writing 3 files of 3.221 GB with blocks of 129024 bytes.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
btape.c:604 Wrote 1 EOF to "Drive-0" (/dev/nst0)
btape.c:406 Volume bytes=3.221 GB. Write rate = 44.128 MB/s
...
btape.c:383 Total Volume bytes=9.664 GB. Total Write rate = 43.531 MB/s

btape.c:1090 Test with random data, should give the minimum throughput.
btape.c:956 Begin writing 3 files of 3.221 GB with blocks of 129024 bytes.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
btape.c:604 Wrote 1 EOF to "Drive-0" (/dev/nst0)
btape.c:406 Volume bytes=3.221 GB. Write rate = 7.271 MB/s
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
...
btape.c:383 Total Volume bytes=9.664 GB. Total Write rate = 7.365 MB/s

When using compression, the random test will give you the minimum throughput of your drive. The test using constant string will give you the maximum speed of your hardware chain. (cpu, memory, scsi card, cable, drive, tape).

You can change the block size in the Storage Daemon configuration file. see Maximum Block Size (Sd->Device)

bscrypto

bscrypto is used in the process of encrypting tapes (see also LTO Hardware Encryption). The Bareos Storage Daemon and the btools (bls, bextract, bscan, btape, bextract) will use a so called Bareos Storage Daemon plugin to perform the setting and clearing of the encryption keys. To bootstrap the encryption support and for populating things like the crypto cache with encryption keys of volumes that you want to scan, you need to use the bscrypto tool. The bscrypto tool has the following capabilities:

  • Generate a new passphrase

    • to be used as a so called Key Encryption Key (KEK) for wrapping a passphrase using RFC3394 key wrapping with aes-wrap
      - or -

    • for usage as a clear text encryption key loaded into the tape drive.

  • Base64-encode a key if requested

  • Generate a wrapped passphrase which performs the following steps:

    • generate a semi random clear text passphrase

    • wrap the passphrase using the Key Encryption Key using RFC3394

    • base64-encode the wrapped key (as the wrapped key is binary, we always need to base64-encode it in order to be able to pass the data as part of the director to storage daemon protocol

  • show the content of a wrapped or unwrapped keyfile.
    This can be used to reveal the content of the passphrase when a passphrase is stored in the database and you have the urge to change the Key Encryption Key. Normally it is unwise to change the Key Encryption Key, as this means that you have to redo all your stored encryption keys, as they are stored in the database wrapped using the Key Encryption Key available in the config during the label phase of the volume.

  • Clear the crypto cache on the machine running the Bareos Storage Daemon, which keeps a cache of used encryption keys, which can be used when the Bareos Storage Daemon is restarted without the need to connect to the Bareos Director to retrieve the encryption keys.

  • Set the encryption key of the drive

  • Clear the encryption key of the drive

  • Show the encryption status of the drive

  • Show the encryption status of the next block (e.g. volume)

  • Populate the crypto cache with data

Other Programs

The following programs are general utility programs and in general do not need a configuration file nor a device name.

bsmtp

bsmtp is a simple mail transport program that permits more flexibility than the standard mail programs typically found on Unix systems. It can even be used on Windows machines.

It is called:

Usage: bsmtp [OPTIONS] recipients...

Positionals:
    recipients TEXT ...
        REQUIRED
        List of recipients. 


Options:
    --version
        Display program version information and exit 

    -?,--help
        Print this help message and exit. 

    -4,--ipv4-protocol
        Forces bsmtp to use IPv4 addresses only. 

    -6,--ipv6-protocol
        Forces bsmtp to use IPv6 addresses only. 

    -8,--utf8
        set charset to UTF-8. 

    -a,--any-protocol
        Use any ip protocol for address resolution. 

    -c,--copy-to TEXT
        Set the Cc: field. 

    -d,--debug-level <level>
        Set debug level to <level>. 

    --dt,--debug-timestamps
        Print timestamps in debug output. 

    -f,--from TEXT
        REQUIRED
        Set the From: field. 

    -h,--mailhost <mailhost/IPv4_address:port>,<[mailhost/IPv6_address]:port>
        Use mailhost:port as the SMTP server. 

    -s,--subject TEXT
        REQUIRED
        Set the Subject: field. 

    -r,--reply-to TEXT
        Set the Reply-To: field. 

    -l,--max-lines UINT
        Set the maximum number of lines to send.

If the -f option is not specified, bsmtp will use your userid. If the option -h is not specified bsmtp will use the value in the environment variable SMTPSERVER or if there is none localhost. By default port 25 is used.

If a line count limit is set with the -l option, bsmtp will not send an email with a body text exceeding that number of lines. This is especially useful for large restore job reports where the list of files restored might produce very long mails your mail-server would refuse or crash. However, be aware that you will probably suppress the job report and any error messages unless you check the log file written by the Director (see the messages resource in this manual for details).

recipients is a space separated list of email recipients.

The body of the email message is read from standard input.

An example of the use of bsmtp would be to put the following statement in the Messages resource of your Bareos Director configuration.

bsmtp in Message resource
Mail Command     = "bsmtp -h mail.example.com -f \"\(Bareos\) %r\" -s \"Bareos: %t %e of %c %l\" %r"
Operator Command = "bsmtp -h mail.example.com -f \"\(Bareos\) %r\" -s \"Bareos: Intervention needed for %j\" %r"

You have to replace mail.example.com with the fully qualified name of your SMTP (email) server, which normally listens on port 25. For more details on the substitution characters (e.g. %r) used in the above line, please see the documentation of the MailCommand in the Messages Resource chapter of this manual.

It is HIGHLY recommended that you test one or two cases by hand to make sure that the mailhost that you specified is correct and that it will accept your email requests. Since command:bsmtp always uses a TCP connection rather than writing in the spool file, you may find that your from address is being rejected because it does not contain a valid domain, or because your message is caught in your spam filtering rules. Generally, you should specify a fully qualified domain name in the from field, and depending on whether your bsmtp gateway is Exim or Sendmail, you may need to modify the syntax of the from part of the message. Please test.

When running bsmtp by hand, you will need to terminate the message by entering a ctrl-d in column 1 of the last line.

If you are getting incorrect dates (e.g. 1970) and you are running with a non-English language setting, you might try adding a LANG=C immediately before the bsmtp call.

In general, bsmtp attempts to cleanup email addresses that you specify in the from, copy, mailhost, and recipient fields, by adding the necessary < and > characters around the address part. However, if you include a display-name (see RFC 5332), some SMTP servers such as Exchange may not accept the message if the display-name is also included in < and >. As mentioned above, you must test, and if you run into this situation, you may manually add the < and > to the Bareos Mail Command (Dir->Messages) or Operator Command (Dir->Messages) and when bsmtp is formatting an address if it already contains a < or > character, it will leave the address unchanged.

bareos-dbcheck

bareos-dbcheck is a simple program that will search for logical inconsistencies in the Bareos tables in your database, and optionally fix them. It is a database maintenance routine, in the sense that it can detect and remove unused rows, but it is not a database repair routine. To repair a database, see the tools furnished by the database vendor. Normally bareos-dbcheck should never need to be run, but if Bareos has crashed or you have a lot of Clients, Pools, or Jobs that you have removed, it could be useful.

bareos-dbcheck is best started as the same user, as the Bareos Director is running, normally bareos. If you are root on Linux, use the following command to switch to user bareos:

Substitute user to bareos
su -s /bin/bash - bareos

If not, problems of reading the Bareos configuration or accessing the database can arise.

bareos-dbcheck supports following command line options:

Usage: bareos-dbcheck [OPTIONS]

Options:
    -h,-?,--help
        Print this help message and exit. 

    --version
        Display program version information and exit 

    -c,--config <path>:PATH(existing)
        Use <path> as Director configuration filename or configuration 
        directory. 

    -B,--print-catalog
        Print catalog configuration and exit. 

    -b,--batch
        Batch mode. 

    -C,--catalog <catalog>
        Catalog name in the director configuration file. 

    -D,--driver TEXT
        Exists for backwards compatibility and is ignored. 

    -d,--debug-level <level>
        Set debug level to <level>. 

    --dt,--debug-timestamps
        Print timestamps in debug output. 

    -f,--fix
        Fix inconsistencies. 

    -v,--verbose
        Default: 0
        Verbose user messages. 

[Option Group: Manual credentials]
  Setting database credentials manually. Can only be used when no configuration is given.
  Positionals:
      working_directory TEXT
          Path to working directory. 
      database_name TEXT
          Database name. 
      user TEXT
          Database user name. 
      password TEXT
          Database password. 
      host TEXT
          Database host. 
      port INT:POSITIVE
          Database port

When using the default configuration paths, it is not necessary to specify any options. Optionally, as Bareos supports loading its database backend dynamically you may specify the right database driver to use using the -D option.

If the -B option is specified, bareos-dbcheck will print out catalog information in a simple text based format:

# bareos-dbcheck -B
catalog=MyCatalog
db_type=postgresql
db_name=bareos
db_driver=
db_user=bareos
db_password=
db_address=
db_port=0
db_socket=

If the -c option is given with the Bareos Director configuration, there is no need to enter any of the command line arguments, in particular the working directory as bareos-dbcheck will read them from the file.

If the -f option is specified, bareos-dbcheck will repair (fix) the inconsistencies it finds. Otherwise, it will report only.

If the -b option is specified, bareos-dbcheck will run in batch mode, and it will proceed to examine and fix (if -f is set) all programmed inconsistency checks. If the -b option is not specified, bareos-dbcheck will enter interactive mode and prompt with the following:

Hello, this is the Bareos database check/correct program.
Modify database is off. Verbose is off.
Please select the function you want to perform.
     0) Quit
     1) Toggle modify database flag
     2) Toggle verbose flag
     3) Check for bad Filename records
     4) Check for bad Path records
     5) Check for duplicate Path records
     6) Check for orphaned Jobmedia records
     7) Check for orphaned File records
     8) Check for orphaned Path records
     9) Check for orphaned FileSet records
    10) Check for orphaned Client records
    11) Check for orphaned Job records
    12) Check for orphaned storage records
    13) Check for all Admin records
    14) Check for all Restore records
    15) Run ALL checks
Select function number:

By entering 1 or 2, you can toggle the modify database flag (-f option) and the verbose flag (-v). It can be helpful and reassuring to turn off the modify database flag, then select one or more of the consistency checks (items 3 through 13) to see what will be done, then toggle the modify flag on and re-run the check.

Since Bareos Version >= 16.2.5, when running bareos-dbcheck with -b and -v, it will not interactively ask if results should be printed or not. Instead, it does not print any detail results.

The inconsistencies examined are the following:

  • Duplicate Filename records. This can happen if you accidentally run two copies of Bareos at the same time, and they are both adding filenames simultaneously. It is a rare occurrence, but will create an inconsistent database. If this is the case, you will receive error messages during Jobs warning of duplicate database records. If you are not getting these error messages, there is no reason to run this check.

  • Repair bad Filename records. This checks and corrects filenames that have a trailing slash. They should not.

  • Repair bad Path records. This checks and corrects path names that do not have a trailing slash. They should.

  • Duplicate Path records. This can happen if you accidentally run two copies of Bareos at the same time, and they are both adding filenames simultaneously. It is a rare occurrence, but will create an inconsistent database. See the item above for why this occurs and how you know it is happening.

  • Orphaned JobMedia records. This happens when a Job record is deleted (perhaps by a user issued SQL statement), but the corresponding JobMedia record (one for each Volume used in the Job) was not deleted. Normally, this should not happen, and even if it does, these records generally do not take much space in your database. However, by running this check, you can eliminate any such orphans.

  • Orphaned File records. This happens when a Job record is deleted (perhaps by a user issued SQL statement), but the corresponding File record (one for each Volume used in the Job) was not deleted. Note, searching for these records can be very time consuming (i.e. it may take hours) for a large database. Normally this should not happen as Bareos takes care to prevent it. Just the same, this check can remove any orphaned File records. It is recommended that you run this once a year since orphaned File records can take a large amount of space in your database. You might want to ensure that you have indexes on JobId, FilenameId, and PathId for the File table in your catalog before running this command.

  • Orphaned Path records. This condition happens any time a directory is deleted from your system and all associated Job records have been purged. During standard purging (or pruning) of Job records, Bareos does not check for orphaned Path records. As a consequence, over a period of time, old unused Path records will tend to accumulate and use space in your database. This check will eliminate them. It is recommended that you run this check at least once a year.

  • Orphaned Filename records. This condition happens any time a file is deleted from your system and all associated Job records have been purged. This can happen quite frequently as there are quite a large number of files that are created and then deleted. In addition, if you do a system update or delete an entire directory, there can be a very large number of Filename records that remain in the catalog but are no longer used.

    During standard purging (or pruning) of Job records, Bareos does not check for orphaned Filename records. As a consequence, over a period of time, old unused Filename records will accumulate and use space in your database. This check will eliminate them. It is strongly recommended that you run this check at least once a year, and for large database (more than 200 Megabytes), it is probably better to run this once every 6 months.

  • Orphaned Client records. These records can remain in the database long after you have removed a client.

  • Orphaned Job records. If no client is defined for a job or you do not run a job for a long time, you can accumulate old job records. This option allow you to remove jobs that are not attached to any client (and thus useless).

  • Orphaned storage records. If you delete a storage configuration file from the bareos configurations folder, you end up with unused storages in the database that can cause certain visual inconsistencies. This option allows you to delete these orphaned storages, but you have to make sure first that they are not used by any Media or Device.

  • All Admin records. This command will remove all Admin records, regardless of their age.

  • All Restore records. This command will remove all Restore records, regardless of their age.

If you are using bvfs (e.g. used by bareos-webui), don’t eliminate orphaned path, else you will have to rebuild brestore_pathvisibility and brestore_pathhierarchy indexes.

Normally you should never need to run bareos-dbcheck in spite of the recommendations given above, which are given so that users don’t waste their time running bareos-dbcheck too often.

bregex

bregex is a simple program that will allow you to test regular expressions against a file of data. This can be useful because the regex libraries on most systems differ, and in addition, regex expressions can be complicated.

To run it, use:

Usage: bregex [OPTIONS]

Options:
    -h,-?,--help
        Print this help message and exit. 

    --version
        Display program version information and exit 

    -d,--debug-level <level>
        Set debug level to <level>. 

    --dt,--debug-timestamps
        Print timestamps in debug output. 

    -f,--filename TEXT
        REQUIRED
        Specify file or data to be matched. 

    -l,--suppress-linenumbers
        Suppress line numbers. 

    -n,--not-match
        Print line that do not match.

The <data-file> is a filename that contains lines of data to be matched (or not) against one or more patterns. When the program is run, it will prompt you for a regular expression pattern, then apply it one line at a time against the data in the file. Each line that matches will be printed preceded by its line number. You will then be prompted again for another pattern.

Enter an empty line for a pattern to terminate the program. You can print only lines that do not match by using the -n option, and you can suppress printing of line numbers with the -l option.

This program can be useful for testing regex expressions to be applied against a list of filenames.

bwild

bwild is a simple program that will allow you to test wild-card expressions against a file of data.

To run it, use:

Usage: bwild [OPTIONS]

Options:
    -h,-?,--help
        Print this help message and exit. 

    --version
        Display program version information and exit 

    -d,--debug-level <level>
        Set debug level to <level>. 

    --dt,--debug-timestamps
        Print timestamps in debug output. 

    -f,--filename TEXT
        REQUIRED
        Specify file or data to be matched. 

    -i,--ignore-case
        Use case insensitive match. 

    -l,--suppress-linenumbers
        Suppress line numbers. 

    -n,--not-match
        Print line that do not match.

The <data-file> is a filename that contains lines of data to be matched (or not) against one or more patterns. When the program is run, it will prompt you for a wild-card pattern, then apply it one line at a time against the data in the file. Each line that matches will be printed preceded by its line number. You will then be prompted again for another pattern.

Enter an empty line for a pattern to terminate the program. You can print only lines that do not match by using the -n option, and you can suppress printing of line numbers with the -l option.

This program can be useful for testing wild expressions to be applied against a list of filenames.

bpluginfo

The main purpose of bpluginfo is to display different information about Bareos plugin. You can use it to check a plugin name, author, license and short description. You can use -f option to display API implemented by the plugin. Some plugins may require additional ’-a’ option for val- idating a Bareos Daemons API. In most cases it is not required.

To run it, use:

Usage: bpluginfo [OPTIONS] plugin_file.so

Positionals:
    plugin_file.so TEXT
        REQUIRED
        Plugin file. 


Options:
    -h,-?,--help
        Print this help message and exit. 

    --version
        Display program version information and exit 

    -a,--api <api>:NONNEGATIVE
        bareos api version (default :1). 

    -f,--list-functions
        list plugin functions information only. 

    -i,--list-headers
        list plugin header information only. 

    -v,--verbose
        Verbose.